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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
University Teacher
Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
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There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted what they really liked.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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We are so conformist nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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Prince Charles is definitely my hero he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work
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I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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The sexiest people are thinkers.
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